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Note that when migrating your MS SQL Server PHP Driver from MSSQL to SQLSRV, if you have used mssql_num_rows, replacing them with sqlsrv_num_rows and replacing mssql_query($query, $mssql_link) with sqlsrv_query($sqlsrv_link, $query) calls will make your sqlsrv_num_rows calls fail. In order to avoid that, you should specify either static, keyset or buffered cursors (buffered cursor has been available since SQLSRV 3.0) when calling sqlsrv_query. For example,<?phpmssql_query($query, $mssql_link);// is equivalent tosqlsrv_query($sqlsrv_link, $query, array(), array('Scrollable' => 'buffered'));?>Using the buffered cursor is "more equivalent" than using the static or keyset cursors to simple mssql_query calls, since it caches the entire result set in client memory.

Try to avoid using this function if you need good performance. Specifying "Scrollable" in the options will make you queries take ages to run. If your result contains less than 5000 rows (might vary on different hardware) its faster to not use "Scrollable" and loop over them in php instead.

If you need to check if a result contains rows use "sqlsrv_has_rows()", this function works without "Scrollable". After removing all my "Scrollable" queries, my page loadtime went from 900ms to 60ms.